The Jungle Book - Rudyard Kipling

pot. “Good! Now, I have seen men thrust a dry branch into that stuff, and presently the Red Flower bloss ...

frightened.” Mowgli sprang to his feet. “Free People,” he cried, “does Shere Khan lead the Pack? What ...

“A bull paid ten years ago!” the Pack snarled. “What do we care for bones ten years old?” “Or for a ...

“Thou art the master,” said Bagheera in an undertone. “Save Akela from the death. He was ever thy frie ...

“No, Little Brother. That is only tears such as men use,” said Bagheera. “Now I know thou art ...

“Come soon,” said Mother Wolf, “little naked son of mine. For, listen, child of man, I loved thee mo ...

Hunting-Song of the Seeonee Pack As the dawn was breaking the Sambhur belled ...

Kaa’s Hunting His spots are the joy of the Leopard: his horns are the Buf ...

leave to hunt here because I am hungry.” And the answer is, “Hunt then for food, but not for pleasure.” All ...

“Good. Now for the birds.” Mowgli repeated, with the Kite’s whistle at the end of the sentence. “Now for the Snake- ...

else cared.” He snuffled a little. “The pity of the Monkey People!” Baloo snorted. “The stillne ...

“I—I? How was I to guess he would play with such dirt. The Monkey People! Faugh!” A fresh shower came ...

Bagheera dared not follow, shouting: “He has noticed us! Bagheera has noticed us. All the Jungle-People admire us ...

The last words were shrieked as he was being swung through the air, but Rann nodded and rose up till ...

and bury me with the Hyaena, for I am most miserable of bears! Arulala! Wahooa! O Mowgli, Mowgli ...

beautifully mottled brown and yellow jacket. “Be careful, Bagheera! He is always a little blind ...

up into the sun today I heard them whooping among the tree-tops.” “It—it is the Bandar-log that we foll ...

“I? How? I take them when they come in my way, but I do not hunt the Bandar-log, or frogs—or ...

said nothing, but, strive as Bagheera might, the huge Rock-python held level with him. When they ...

but they never remembered what they had seen and what they had not; and so drifted about in ones a ...